Bunkers in Albania

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Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled the country from 1945 to 1985,
was paranoid about foreign invasions. He ordered to build more than
900,000 bunkers across the country. Nowadays those bunkers can be found
in the very unusual places.

When the prototype bunker was finished in the 1950s Hoxha asked the
chief engineer how confident he was that it could withstand a full
assault from a tank. The engineer answered, "Very confident". The
Communist Party supremo then insisted that the engineer stand inside his
creation while it was bombarded by a tank. The shell-shocked engineer
emerged unscathed and Hoxha ordered thousands of these built.